The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Conor Friedersdorf Is Not Adolf Eichmann

Let’s just clear up that little misunderstanding right away, OK? To my knowledge, I have never asserted that Friedersdorf was an SS-Obersturmbannführer, nor even that he aspired to such a position. Why Conor is acting so defensive — “Who me? I’m Riccardo Klement, an innocent Argentine technician!” — I’m not quite sure: Suffice it to […]

Alabama Apocalypse: Tim James, Bradley Byrne and Quin’s Vow of Revenge

My American Spectator article today: Tim James was Tea Party before Tea Party was cool. Before the federal bailouts, before most Americans had heard of Barack Obama, before Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck became household names, James helped lead the 2003 effort to stop a tax increase proposed by Alabama’s Republican Gov. Bob Riley. The […]

Evolution, Anthropogenic Global Warming and Other Non-Falsifiable Theories

Michael Walsh at Big Journalism takes on MSNBC’s bizarre claim that the D.C. blizzard proves that climate-change skeptics are wrong: MSNBC apparently borrowed their talking points from the New York Times which, as Walsh notes, invoked the authority of “most climate scientists” for the assertion that climate change caused the massive snowstorm. Even before we learned of the […]

Rhode Island Red? Patrick Kennedy Announces He Won’t Seek Re-Election

He once called Scott Brown’s Senate campaign a “joke,” but now the Brown Revolution has driven Teddy’s son from Congress: A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress. . . . The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a […]

Iowa Court OKs 17-Year-Old Strippers

It’s art! Nude dancing is still an art form in Iowa, at least at a strip club in the tiny town of Hamburg. The Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed the state’s request for a review of the issue. The request followed a judge’s 2008 decision that Clarence Judy, then-owner of Shotgun Geniez, didn’t […]

‘Chief Investigative Reporter’ for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Resigns After Plagiarism Scandal

At least he wasn’t just making up stuff: Amid additional allegations of plagiarism, journalist and South Beach resident Gerald Posner announced via his blog and Twitter that he has resigned from The Daily Beast, the year-old Internet news publication co-founded by Tina Brown. Posner wrote that his boss, Daily Beast Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal, called […]

Poll Question: Gays in the Military

“A new CBS News/ New York Times poll finds that the wording of the question is key when it comes to determining whether Americans support allowing gays to serve in the military.” — Kevin Hechtkopf, CBS News Q. How would you feel if you turned on the TV and saw a Navy admiral flouncing down […]

Democrats Accuse My Alma Mater of Conservative Political Bias

How awesome is this? Alabama state Democratic Party officials are calling for the resignation of Jacksonville State University Government Relations Director Don Killingsworth after what they called “a blatant display of partisanship on what Killingsworth himself termed a ‘no electioneering’ campus.” In a statement released Tuesday, party officials accused Killingsworth and the university of showing […]

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